Posted on 01/27/2025 10:10:37 AM PST by Morgana
Illegal migrants fearing deportation are said to be in hiding, turning usually crowded factories, warehouses and grocery stores into ghost towns.
President Donald Trump has order federal agents to at least 1,200 to 1,500 illegal aliens each day as part of his sweeping immigration crackdown.
Scared undocumented migrants began hunkering down after Trump took office for the second time last week, with dozens failing to turn up to work.
Only 10 out of the usually 40 to 50 migrants workers attended their shifts at a factory in Joliet, Illinois last week, The Chicago Tribune reported, as six federal agencies swept the Greater Chicago area for 'potentially dangerous criminal aliens'.
Locals claim a Home Depot parking lot that is normally packed with day laborers seeking work was 'eerily quiet' with just a men standing around.
Sunday mass at Chicago's St. Agnes of Bohemia Catholic Church was also unusually empty, parishioners claim, likely because the Trump Administration relaxed rules governing enforcement actions at 'sensitive' locations such as schools, churches and workplaces.
Social media is flooding with reports of empty factory parking lots, doctor's office waiting rooms, grocers and big box stores, such as Walmart, in wake of Trump's mass deportation efforts.
Immigration officials arrested nearly 1,000 illegal migrants on Sunday alone as the White House praised the federal agents who are 'working tirelessly to protect our communities'.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reported making a total of 593 arrests on Friday and 286 arrests on Saturday. In the 2024 federal fiscal year, it averaged around 310 per day, according to agency data.
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Their kids all attend free public school
How many times can the word “amid” be used in one headline?
I am a hundred percent sorry for any kids who have no agency. They may have had a very traumatic time getting here, too.
My hope is that intact families will repatriate themselves and become solid assets in their home countries. If being an American citizen is a goal may they apply and go through the process and come in lawfully as contributing members of our nation.
Most of the recent invaders don’t have children, fortunately.
Now, let's go after the employers in federal court.
“””Home Depot store is eerily quiet”””
And in the Evening News our Reporters are being called to hundreds of Democrat homes where the residents are complaining that Jose and Abdul did not show up this morning to complete the bathroom remodel.
I kind of like “amidst” myself. Gives it that Oxfordian flavor...
“If being an American citizen is a goal may they apply and go through the process and come in lawfully as contributing members of our nation.”
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If they self-deport that may be an option.
If they are rounded up and deported, they will never be allowed back.
Agreed. Also, Oxfordian: “whilst”. I think I spelled that right.
Probably many are hiding out.
I’m awaiting the moment when the media anoints a particular young illegal girl as the ‘Anne Frank’ of Trump’s war on immigration (you know it’s coming).
Quick tip on how to get a Home Depot employee to acknowledge your presence: Start climbing one of those roll-around ladders that say, "Keep Off". Employees will parachute in off the rafters to yell at you.
Now is the time to coordinate all these new employment opportunities with the welfare programs.
That’s what worries me - thousands of military age men, traveling alone, from all over the world.
W blew up the Middle East. What’s the difference?
Seems to me I recall some arcane notion one cannot hire illegals.
Send them all back home where their communities can address their problems instead of forcing communities here to deal with the non-solutions.
As with US citizens, children of lawbreakers often suffer adverse consequences when their parents are held accountable.
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